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Nicely said. I had to laugh when I saw the bit about how one should maybe make a plan for making changes. I'd suggest 95% of effort on the plan and 5% on implementation. To Gregor …

Sounds like your two AI developers are BOTH CORRECT. One figured out how to use AI tools and the other ... not so much. That said, "AI as tool" is already an outdated paradigm. Par…

Yes, those sure are big red flags! If you're not seeing demos, at a minimim, within HOURS then that's a warning sign. Eval metrics should be the first step, before you build anythi…

Greg, I feel your pain. That said, there ARE solutions to the problems you describe. You say, "I’ll give you an example. I’m trying to get the Dez codebase to properly use SBP with…

Please, fellow cypherpunks and hackers, evaluate this Magnetospheric Physics tutorial I built. What works well? What needs improvement? I value your feedback.

I built myself a persistent research assistant. It's been so helpful I wanted to share with others. I took a couple hours out to write a white paper to explain to other power users…

Are you sure about that? Is that a considered and well-researched opinion or a hot take? For example, One, can you list some prospective substrates that ought to be considered? Or …

Well, downboots, a Turing machine computes. That's a step in the right direction. What are some requirements of life: * Sustained energy throughput, aka thermodynamic disequilibriu…

How many biological substrates that support life do we know of? There's our current Chemistry in three dimensions substrate based on carbon. Are there any others? What are some lik…

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I agree that's a good parallel. I had not seen it before. Thanks for the link.

Good question. It's closest to dynamical systems, which usually lives in applied math or physics departments. But that's kind of the problem — it gets taught as theory in one depar…

Good correction! Ermentrout is a fair example. You're right that a lot of neuroscience criticality work came from retrained physicists. The paper distinguishes between independent …

Dude, I'm sorry to offend you. And sharp of you to notice. I failed to get substantive engagement the first two times (1 point and 4 points) so I tried again. This time I got some …

No, the goal is documenting the convergence pattern itself. We did use LLMs as research tools — acknowledged in the paper — but the cross-domain analysis and citation mapping are h…

Fair call on the website — we built it fast and it shows. The paper itself is a traditional literature review and citation analysis. I am one of two human authors. We use standard …

You're raising the right question, and the paper addresses it directly. The transfer wasn't as clean as "physicists applied their tools to other fields." Some specific cases: Wisse…

Exactly right. The phase transition analogy is powerful precisely because it's not just analogy — the same mathematical operators that describe water at criticality also describe m…

The propagation time is the interesting part. Critical slowing down was in physics textbooks by the 1970s. Ecology didn't import it until 2003 — via a chance conversation at a conf…

Author here. We found the same mathematical structure appearing independently in physics (phase transitions), finance (market crashes), ecology (extinction cascades), neuroscience(…

You've actually described the exact mechanism we found. Each field needed math for tipping-point detection, couldn't find it translated into their domain language, and rebuilt it f…